{"id":8075,"date":"2008-08-25T01:10:36","date_gmt":"2008-08-25T01:10:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/127.0.0.1\/site\/2017\/2\/1985\/down_under_technology_saves_church_that_didnt_have_a_prayer\/"},"modified":"2008-08-25T01:10:36","modified_gmt":"2008-08-25T01:10:36","slug":"down_under_technology_saves_church_that_didnt_have_a_prayer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8075","title":{"rendered":"Down Under Technology saves church that didn&#39;t have a prayer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>THE future for many small rural churches was unveiled at the tiny town of Beeac yesterday: a direct internet link with a large city church and a shared morning worship service.<\/p>\n<p>New 3G technology and a communal ambition enabled the Glen Waverley Uniting Church to transmit its 11am family service onto a large screen in Beeac in an experiment that has sparked the interest and hopes of many country churches.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s very exciting,&#8221; Beeac parishioner Dawn Missen said. &#8220;We hope it will strengthen relations between country and city. We&#8217;ve already met some lovely people from Glen Waverley. Although we are small in number, we can be stimulated by a strong, vibrant city congregation.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theage.com.au\/national\/technology-saves-church-that-didnt-have-a-prayer-20080824-41f2.html\">Read it all<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE future for many small rural churches was unveiled at the tiny town of Beeac yesterday: a direct internet link with a large city church and a shared morning worship service. New 3G technology and a communal ambition enabled the<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/?p=8075\">Read more &#8250;<\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":794,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48,39,50,42,204,154,184,108,95],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8075","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-christian-life-church-life","category-culture-watch","category-international-news-commentary","category-religion-news-commentary","category-australia-nz","category-other-churches","category-parish-ministry","category-religion-culture","category-science-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/794"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8075"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8075\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8075"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8075"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kendallharmon.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8075"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}